The Celestial Bird of the Ceiba Tree: A Mayan Folktale from Guatemala and Mexico
Long ago, when the world was still young and the boundaries between the realms of gods and mortals were thin, there stood a ceiba tree so vast that its roots pierced the underworld, its trunk rose through the human world, and its crown reached into the heavens. The Maya called it Yaxche, the sacred ceiba, the tree of life that held
